Ronnie Bardah raised from middle position to 450. Only the big blind came along to see the flop come down 
. Both players checked the flop, the turn (
) and the river (
). Bardah tabled the 
, but it was no good as his opponent his a lowly pair of threes with the 
. Bardah lost a few hundred chips, but still has 46,000 in his stack.
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Tracey Nguyen, extremely short-stacked for the past couple hours after losing with aces versus aces, has finally succumbed.
She got her last in with 
against another player's , and failed to hit a thing on the 
board.
With 1,900 chips in the middle, the board read 
between Marco Johnson and one other player. Johnson checked to his opponent, who bet 1,200. Johnson thought for a bit and then called.
The river completed the board with the 
and Johnson checked. His opponent thought and thought, but eventually just checked behind.
"Queen high," announced Johnson, with the . His opponent tabled the 
and won the pot to knock Johnson back a tiny bit to 55,000.
We caught up with Johnny Lodden betting 10,000 on the river of a 
board. His opponent called and turned over - but Lodden's humble 
had managed to make a flush, and he moved up to 60,000.
After a quiet opening level, Irish pro Owen Robinson has sparked into action and built his stack up to above average. One key hand saw him call a preflop raise with 
on the button, leading to a 
(X) flop. The initial aggressor bet, and Robinson made the call.
The turn came an off-suit jack to give Robinson two pair, but he trod cautiously, just flat calling a second consecutive bet.
The river was the "money card," Robinson filling up with another jack. His opponent checked, before flat-calling a bet of 8,000 with an inferior . Consequently, Robinson is now up to 50,000 and playing with increasing confidence.
Blair Rodman opened for 600 in late position and got calls from the players on the button and the small blind to see a 
flop. The small blind checked to Rodman who bet 1,025. The button folded, the small blind called, and they saw a turn.
Both players checked the turn, and indeed they checked the river too. The small blind turned over 
for two pair, and Rodman mucked and dropped to 21,500.
John "Tex" Barch won his first bracelet here at the 2010 World Series of Poker, taking down Event #20: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha for $256,919. He is no stranger to Main Event success either, finishing 3rd in 2005 for $2,500,000.
Barch is off to a nice start today after opening to 625 from early position and receiving one caller from the small blind.
The flop fell 
and Barch's opponent check called an 1,100-chip bet.
The turned and the action went check-call again - this time the bet was 2,700.
What do you know, after the 
rivered the action went check-call. Barch's bet was 4,000 this time, and he tabled 
after the call.
His opponent mucked, and Barch is now up to 35,500 chips.
A player in the cutoff had raised to 525 with Phil Galfond making the call as well as the player in the big blind. All three players checked the flop of 
as well as the on the turn.
Action was checked to Galfond after the came on the river. He bet 1,025 with only the player in the cutoff calling.
Galfond showed for the straight and his opponent mucked. Galfond is now up to 53,000.
With the board reading 
, Rafe Furst was faced with a bet of 10,000 chips effectively putting him all in.
Furst made the call with 
for a pair of aces, and his opponent, Ryan Aiken, rolled over 
for a set of threes sending Furst packing.
There was a raise to 800 from a gentleman in mid position, which both Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (cutoff) and Kido Pham (button) called. The player in the small blind called too and all four saw an flop.
It checked around to Pham who bet 3,125. The small blind called, the original raiser and ElkY both got out of the way, and it was turn time.
The turn was the 
and the small blind check-called 6,050 from Pham. He checked again on the river and this time Pham bet 15,275. The small blind tanked up for a long, long time, and eventually he made the call - only to be faced with Pham's for a full house. He mucked.
Pham increased his stack to 56,300.
